Career Ed Lounge is embedded in over eighty professional development portals serving the career and technical education community. Performance Groups in the Lounge are integrated with related learning opportunities offered on these portals. With a few exceptions, Performance Groups are also publicly available to any member of the Lounge to maximize peer-to-peer learning and performance outcomes.
As far as regulations and rules I believe all schools have the same requirements. However, how and when in the admissions process it is implemented varies I am sure. It just depends on each institution and what processes they use for their best practices.